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Saturday, September 27, 2003
 
Linux Mainstream many years away

Although this is an adventure in OSX, it is not unlike installing stuff for Linux when you need to get into the nitty gritty. This is why we are still many many years off in Linux being used mainstream. Nobody in their right mind wants to jump through hoops like this to install anything:

Open Source OS X Hell Again. In a previous essay I recounted my travails in getting the GD.pm, and some other Open Source stuff, up and running on the OS X box. I did it again last night, and here are some maybe-helpful hints. If you don't know what GD.pm might be, you won't miss anything by skipping this one... [source: ongoing]

I've gone through a similar procedure many times trying to install something or other on various flavours of Linux. And even worse, most of the time you end up giving up at some point because you just can't force your way through some install or figure out how to get it to install some other way. Its just disgusting.

 
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